Road to Nowhere
Chapter 6
Two days after the fiasco with Sakura's parents, in particular her dad, Naruto and Sakura went to check on Sakura's mother's condition, even though Sakura had a week off due to the whole incident.
Sakura was elated to find out that her mother was cleared from the hospital and was allowed to return home. Naruto and Sakura both walked her back to her abode to make sure she have a break-down or anything once she got there.
Once Sakura's mom was taken care of, however, Naruto and Sakura knew that they next had to go to the trial of her father.
"Are you sure you want to go and do this because you don't have to if you don't want to ya know," Naruto said rather worried that she might make an emotional scene.
The courtrooms, on the far end of Konoha near the prison, were rarely used since there wasn't very much crime at all in the land of fire.
Naruto and Sakura took their seets in the front row rather drearily knowing that there was about a fifty fifty chance that her dad got off free. The reason being that there were only two judges that presided over Konoha's courts.
Needless to say one was very lenient, the other very harsh.
"I hope that he gets Mr. Akasaka," Sakura whispered in Naruto's ear.
This stunned Naruto because he was by all means not the lenient judge.
"Ladies and gentlemen please rise for the honorable judge Akasaka!" was heard from a booming voice but from a source no one could seem to find.
Sakura was so excited that she nearly did a flip, knowing that her father would pay for all the horrible things he did to her and her mother.
(Seven hours later) "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict," asked the, actually, rather excited judge, knowing that he might be able to ruin this evil man's day.
"We have your honor, we the jury find the defendant… Guilty of all charges," said the jury spokesman.
After Sakura heard this she got a very, VERY bad feeling in her stomach knowing that something was about to go wrong, horribly wrong.
"Very well I hereby sentence you to… capital punishment with no bail, court dismissed," the completely shocked crowd that had gathered were struck speechless. The fact that such a harsh punishment had been given to a relatively small crime was simply unfathomable.
Some of the women in the courtroom began to cry, but Sakura held a ridged posture staring directly forward.
'No… this can't be… it wasn't supposed to be like this… he wasn't supposed to get longer than ten years at the absolute most,' Sakura thought while similar things were running through Naruto's mind.
"Uhhhh hey, Sakura-chan, we should probably get going," Naruto quietly mumbled into her ear as if it was an automatic response.
Naruto helped her up seeing as how she was still contemplating what had happened only moments before.
"Uhhh yah, ok lets go," Sakura said still rather lost in thought.
When they got back to Naruto's place they were quite sad and therefore completely satisfied by sitting around sharing the large bottle of Sake that Naruto kept in his pantry but never really used.
After about a quarter of the bottle had been emptied (mostly by Sakura) Naruto decided to comfort her and so he got up from the arm-chair he had been sitting at and went and rapped his arm around Sakura which immediately got her to start crying into his chest.
After she had regained her composure she decided that she and Naruto should go out and do something to cheer them up.
When she proposed the idea Naruto decide that training required too much effort and he wasn't really hungry so agreed upon a movie.
"What do you want to see?" Sakura questioned while Naruto mentally tug-a-warred over Pirates of the Caribbean and another movie that he didn't even want to consider but since he decided that Sakura would probably be interested in it, he let her talk him into it.
"Fine Sakura-chan we can see Bride's Maids if you want to that badly," Naruto groaned.
(After the movie) Naruto felt drained from lack of manliness. He had to admit there was a few funny scenes but overall a bad movie.
Sakura however had a great time and repeatedly thanked Naruto for watching the movie with her.
Naruto however unsatisfied with the movie itself was happy because got Sakura back to her happy self, and he got some nice snuggle time.
When they got home Sakura knew that she needed to occupy her time… as well as make sure that Naruto got his reward for the pain he had to endure in that movie.
(The next morning) Sakura was surprised to find that Naruto had woken up to make them both pancakes with sausage links.
She was also surprised to find that they were amazing and not only that but they were perfectly identical for every one.
"Wow Naruto I didn't know you could cook," Sakura said between bites.
"Yah Iruka sensei made me take some lessons so that I could eat something other than ramen all of the time," Naruto said while zoning out thinking about his Sakura-chan sitting yet again at his kitchen table.
Sakura later left the table announcing that she had to depart for work Naruto came around and after giving her a big kiss allowed her to depart.
(Author's note)
Hey im glad that you have stuck with the story this far and honestly I gotta say ive hit a bit of a dead end with this one and am not really sure where to go from here. I planned on it being longer but I might not be able to fulfill that. Also I will be going to New Zealand for three weeks, with obvious consequences to the story so sorry bout that. If you have recommendations for the story line I would love to hear them but if I cant get any ideas from myself or you guys then im gunna be stumped and try my best to make a good ending and end this one. Have a good one